Sentences with phrase «to lord something over someone»

People of faith typically tend to keep their beliefs to themselves and not lord it over others.

The Gentiles of Jesus» day would have scorned a book called Servant Leadership; for, as Jesus told the disciples, «The rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.»

Jimmy (Sean Penn) is an ex-con who lords it over a few hoods, runs a neighborhood grocery, and seems like a fairly contented family man until his teenage daughter Katie (Emmy Rossum) is found brutally murdered with no apparent motive.

But with his lifelong nemesis out of the picture, lording it over Metro City doesn't have the same appeal.

Men lorded it over women and considered them as inferior creatures.

On this occasion Jesus called them to him and told them, as he had before (cf. Mk 9:35; Lk 9:48), that the greatest among them would he the slave of the rest: they were not to lord it over men, as the rulers of the nations did (cf Lk 22:24 - 26).

It becomes important in adolescence when a flood of hormones changes the reward centers in the brain and causes lording it over others to suddenly become much more pleasurable.

«But Jesus called [the 12 disciples] together and said, «You know that the rulers in this world lord it over their people, and officials flaunt their authority over those under them.

The equational development of creation appears to reach its pinnacle in man but man is not content with lording it over the rest of creation.

The Bible tells Christians not to «lord it over people,» but rather to be one another's servants.

Yes and in rocking the boat, he was of service to humanity not doing it to be superiour to or lord it over anyone else.

Even some who stand relatively low in the prestige ladder now lord it over nature, as they drive great machines which coerce the earth to do their bidding, or shape and twist tough metal as if it were putty, or with explosives obliterate any obstacle in the wink of an eye.

Where law (what we do) is employed to make people better Christians, you end up with prideful, self - righteous Christians lording it over others.

We should not let someone Lord it over us or tell us what to do or what to believe.

Not even from reading third - hand half - remembered bushwah written by greedy filthy priests lording it over the suckers, I mean the followers they had gathered at the time.

Plus they love to lord it over older women that they can get women of any age, even going overseas on those so - called «Romance Tours» for mail order brides who are young enough to be their doggone daughters.

Then I will lord it over all the other less - trendy moms so that I can be Queen of the Playgroup.

Santos, Museveni, Mugabe, Mswathi, Bashir, Biya and others in the same ilk started their games; mindlessly lording it over their people in an age of docility.

Boko Haram simply lorded it over us as a people; hoisted flags everywhere; imposed taxes; ran parallel governments while the bulk of the resources meant for tackling terrorism went into private bank accounts through the conduit of PDP's campaign offices and gladiators.

To lord it over ordinary folk.

Especially when these so called sophisticates then lord it over the rest of us simpletons for taking the most coarse and un-nuanced positions.

the issue is him hes not a leader he is great at protesting but shouldnt lead a political party at all, the labour party is not a movement its a party and 500, ooo members cant lord it over 9million labour voters..

This brand of dominance represents a radical transformation from the snarling dominance of an alpha male in a pack of wolves, or the mouse tyrant lording it over his trembling colony.

There's a long line of familiar British faces among the cast, most notably Noel Coward in his last film acting role as the prison inmate lording it over fellow prisoners and staff alike.

Upon arrival they do not find King Kong but, alas, someone far smaller and less photogenic, mercenary Mathias Vogel (Walton Goggins), whose goons lord it over a gang of poor souls unfortunate enough to have been dashed upon the rocks there.

Those who enjoy lording it over us serfs on the road know only a Landie will do.

The five star Carlton hotel is tall, bold and glamorous and unabashedly lord it over the gorgeous Tel Aviv marina.

I take immense satisfaction in lording it over the land from the hand - built fortress, and get incredibly depressed when the game decides enough is enough and sends the suicide shrubs to demolish my hard work.

At the head of it all is returning villain Mundus, lording it over Earth as a banker in his massive tower that is sure to attract some «He's compensating for something» jokes.

He is the frog peeping out from the side way back in 1969, the black silhouette lording it over an oval in 1972, and the man in a bow tie caught up in clashing geometry from 2000.

The iPhone 6 Plus could be seen as the biggest response to shifting trends in smartphones, with many top Android smartphones and Windows Phone devices lording it over the iPhone for a number of years thanks to the larger display choices.

Your boss plays favorites and the favored party lords it over you; people form cliques and leave you out.

But Jesus called them to him and said, «You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

It is the egalitarian life in the community that counts — where the rich do not lord it over the poor (or in Amos» words, where the «rich do not sell the poor for a pair of sandals»), nor men over women.

You're sitting high up in your leather throne, lording it over everyone else while enjoying a cabin nice enough for you to genuinely consider living in it.

Here he sums it up again: «You know that among the Gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them.

No tribe or family in Ghana is going to be allowed to lord it over other tribes and families, and Akufo - Addo and his ilk must re-think their tribal and ethnic agenda.

«You know that the princes of the nations are those who lord it over them, and their great men rule them by force; but it is not to be so among you; rather he who will be great among you, let him be your servant, and he who will be the first among you, let him be the servant of all.»

They're the castle on the hill, lording it over the town below.

Then a lot of other things come to mind (like references to «that which is Caesar's» versus «that which is God's» and admonishment to «not lord it over one another» and then there's the whole deliverance from Egyptian slavery thing...)